Virtual Peirce

Since the early 90′s at least the word “virtual” has become a buzz word. Since The Matrix it’s entered into common venacular and been applied to virtual worlds (video games like Halo or more social sites like Second Life) However it’s also had a fair use within philosophy as well. The idea goes back at [...]

Harman and Latour

Interesting review of Harman’s Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics.

Mad Scientists

Most mad scientists are really just mad engineers

Russell Fox on Mormons and Wealth

Russell Fox, one of my favorite bloggers, is perhaps better known in general blogging circles than within Mormon blogs. He’s blogged regularly over at his private blog In Medias Res as at various popular political group blogs. Russell had up a fantastic post “Can a Good Mormon Make Over $100,000 a Year?” Now Russell is [...]

Suspensive Historiography

Is suspensive historiography the only legitimate kind? That is should historians withhold judgment on the beliefs of people being examined (as Bushman famously argued in his Joseph Smith biography)

Heidegger, Humans and Language

I think it safe to say that one of the more interesting parts of the latter Heidegger is where he talks about language. One of the more famous quotes is that man doesn’t have language but rather language has man. This has always reminded me of Peirce’s quote that man is a symbol, even though [...]

Slate on the Great Mormon Novel

Slate on where the great Mormon novel is.

What is a Philosopher

Critchley in the NYT on what is a philosopher?

Slate and the Book of Mormon as Literature

Lots of discussion at LDS-Herm on Alan Wolfe’s review of The Book of Mormon as literature at Slate. Wolfe acknowledges it is much more complex than most think but has a hard time seeing it as great literature. I actually agree, although I’m not sure why we ought expect it (or any ancient text) to [...]

Ereignis and Peirce

Enowning has up a great little quote from Jussi Backman’s “The Singularity of Being and the Fourfold in the Later Heidegger” which gets at Ereignis. Upon reading it I immediately thought of Peirce. I think this is a good place to examine some of the differences between Peirce and Heidegger instead of their overlap. Some [...]

Being – Neither a Substance nor a Process

Semantic Foundry on Being (HT: Enowning) [B]eing is neither a substance nor a process. Being, in early Heidegger at least, is “that on the basis of which beings are already understood.” One might say that the understanding of being is the style of life manifest in the way everyday practices are coordinated.

The Blog

OK, I’m obviously vastly behind again in blog writing.  Sorry, blogging is my lowest priority activity.  I’ll still be posting but probably not as much as I’d have liked. I have a new baby coming in just three short weeks, a new store opening, and a lot else I’ve been doing.  

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